After Backlash, Changes in Store for CSCOPE
CSCOPE, a controversial statewide curriculum delivery system that has come under fire from critics for its prescriptive structure and a perceived anti-American bias, will undergo a sweeping review process and ensure better transparency, state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, announced Friday.
As a result of a Senate hearing last week in which CSCOPE representatives faced tough questions from lawmakers, the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative, the state-funded group that designed the system, will review the materials included in the lesson plans and open all future meetings to the public, said Patrick, the chairman of the Senate Education Committee. The group ...
Comments (6)
Mack Green
All that will become transparent is an attempted revision of history, science, and social study points of view through the red-colored glasses of those who most need a wider education.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
Historians and professional educators or Glen Beck and the paranoid delusions of the creeping Sharia Law, Black Helicopter crowd. Naturally, we side with the crazies in the Senate Education Committee.
donald baker
CSCOPE should be eliminated, not changed. Its purpose was political indocrination, not education. The education of our children is too important for them to be subjected to educational malpractice such as this.. This is a prime example of why we need to break the monopoly of government schools with a school voucher program. That would force government schools to actually educate rather than indocrinate.
Proud Texan
So we want MORE government oversight of the PUBLIC schools at the same time we want taxpayer money (vouchers) going to PRIVATE schools who can do anything they want outside of the open meetings or open records act?! Makes perfect sense......NOT
Phillip Sanders
Donald, private schools don't want to follow the same rules as public schools. They don't want to give standardized test and be held accountable by the state. This is why they (private schools) will not accept vouchers and the plan will never be successful in Texas.
Michael Hull
Phillip, you assume the Leg will put such restrictions on a voucher plan--I don't....